best use of graphics in FM

[Ken Poshedly]

Well, as the final nail on the coffin on this matter (my FrameMaker-challenged 
coworker hacking his way through to produce down-and-ridiculously-dirty files), 
I've given up because following a conversation that got VERY heated and loud in 
the office, it is now apparent that he thrives far more than I had thought, 
loves an outright confrontation and will do only what he wants to do. (He almost 
got into a physical fight with another guy a few months ago and bragged to me 
that he won't take any s__t from anybody.) He's in his mid-50s, is fiercely 
independent, long-divorced and would rather be terminated and find a job 
somewhere else than be forced to do things he doesn't like.

While we "work" well together, I mean that we do joke with each other and both 
strive to complete our projects quickly, except that he hacks his way through 
while I take perhaps a little longer (really not by much) doing it correctly,  
as you here have confirmed. Otherwise, we are far more apart than I ever 
thought. When I showed him how to complete a purchase request for printing 
manuals, he found someone else to do it, saying it's not his job to do that. He 
almost tried to order me to not do a file transfer to a local printer after the 
printing order was confirmed, saying again that that task is for the "purchasing 
department to do." I disagree and proceeded with my job.

He keeps throwing out that he was tech pubs manager at his previous (very large 
and nationally known) company. Except that I can now tell that nobody 
knowledgeable there really kept tabs on him, or else what he does here would not 
have been allowed.

Even though we both now agree that the heat is now slightly off for us to rush 
through projects, he refuses to even consider saving those images he has 
screen-grabbed, so that if his FM file crashes we can speed up the rebuild 
process. His reply was "Tough." I told him I had consulted with other tech 
writers (you guys) and what the consensus was (save the image files before 
referencing/embedding). He came back with he knows that "as a manager" and 
having talked with other managers that all they care about is speed, get it 
done, no matter what it takes. And he told me that I refuse to compromise.

And no, he doesn't subscribe to this (or any list) and is far less computer 
literate than I thought.

That song by the Animals of the British music invasion days of the 1960s "We 
gotta Get Out of This Place" was never so true. I gotta get outta here.

All future comments to me about this should now be off-list and I will respond 
as such.

Sorry for the negativity, but it's just boiling over.

-- Ken, in hell




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From: Ken Poshedly <poshedly at bellsouth.net>
To: Shlomo Perets <shlomo2 at microtype.com>
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thu, March 22, 2012 11:40:07 AM
Subject: Re: best use of graphics in FM


First, thanks to all who have written to me both on-list and off-list. It’s 
certainly good to have a support group of those likewise addicted to this 
software. (Maybe at an FM conference we can go around the room for introductions 
like at an AA meeting, “I’m Ken and I’m a FrameMaker user.”)

Second, I’m still checking possible solutions to see if I cold convince my 
coworker to add graphics to FM docs correctly, but it seems like a lost cause 
because he simply doesn’t see the need to do anything other than copy and paste. 
For new images, he simply opens the folder with photos taken of a new machine, 
copies a photo and directly pastes it into an anchored frame in his FM document.

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